Fast food bears: Brown bear diet in a human-dominated landscape with intensive supplemental feeding

Wildlife Biology

Volumn 21, Issue 1, 2015, Pages 1-8

  Kavčič, Irena ^a   Adamič, Miha ^a   Kaczensky, Petra ^b   Krofel, Miha ^a   Kobal, Milan ^c   Jerina, Kiemen ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LJUBLJANA   (Slovenia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF VETERINARY MEDICINE   (Austria)

^c SLOVENIAN FORESTRY INSTITUTE   (Slovenia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HEXAPODA; MAMMALIA; URSUS ARCTOS; ZEA MAYS;

EID: 84920274848     PISSN: 09096396     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2981/wlb.00013     Document Type: Article

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